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Owner of Mountain Wanderer Map and Book Store and avid hiker for 40 years. Editor of AMC White Mountain Guide and author or co-author of several other White Mountain guidebooks. Member of AMC Four Thousand Footer Committee and WMNF trail adopter.

Thursday, January 4, 2018

DICKEY MOUNTAIN: 1/3/18

Mark Klim and I took advantage of a break from the Arctic blast for a leisurely snowshoe hike up Dickey Mountain. It turned out to be a magnificent winter day for one of the best (when snow conditions are good) snowshoe treks in the Whites. (Note that in lean snow times, this trail can be very icy on the ledges, requiring traction - in the form of Microspikes or even full crampons - and caution.)

The trail up Dickey had an excellent packed snowshoe track.

There were many deer tracks along the lower part of the trail.

Ice flows approaching the first ledge.

Emerging on the great snow-covered granite slab on the south shoulder of Dickey.

We made our own tracks across this expanse.

King of the hill.

Looking across to Dickey and Welch.

Contrail left by one of a pair of fighter jets that were playing in the sky.

Not many days lately where this would be comfortable.

Ghostly Moosilauke.

Snowshoe hare tracks.

Emerging on the vast upper south slab of Dickey. The extensive bare ledges of Dickey and Welch may be the result of a large forest fire that burned the southern spurs of Mt. Tecumseh around 1820.